Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett slams home 'God Bless America' at World Series Game 1

Tony Bennett took the field for the 1st 7th inning stretch of the 2010 World Series on Wed night, delivering a rendition of "God Bless America" that had fans singing along in serious fashion while the San Francisco Giants took the Texas Rangers 11-7 at home.

John Legend sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" to kick off the game (see that performance here).

In keeping with the Giants jacket he sported at AT&T Park, Bennett more typically stirs hearts with his signature tune, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," which he sang on the field after the 1st inning. In addition to accenting various sporting events over the decades and marking Giants' wins at home, that song was invoked by the crooner at the reopening of the Bay Bridge a month and a day after the October. 17, 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake -- which occurred during Game three of that year's World Series between the Giants and the Oakland A's -- left a 50-foot section of the bridge pancaked, killing one person on the bridge and 57 peoples total.



Enjoy Bennett, 84, singing America's unofficial national anthem, above, and revisit the Loma Prieta quake from the Candlestick Park POV in the video below. The quake hits just before the 4:40 mark; the Giants played their last game at Candlestick in September 1999.

The 2010 World Series continues by the Bay for one more game Thursday night before moving to Texas for Saturday's contest at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

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Date: 27 October 2010

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HALLOWEEN!

I love Halloween. it definitely makes the top 5 list of my favorite holidays. I always, always, ALWAYS dress up, and since Sean and I have been together, we've done some sort of funny couple costumes. let's look back, shall we?

the first year we were together (2007), we dressed up in this:

I was a brick house, and Sean was a brick layer. get it? 

our second year together, we were this classic couple:

Pebbles & Bam Bam! I loved this costume. it was super comfy! 

unfortunately, Sean didn't agree, so within a couple hours, he went from this...

to this (see him in the background?)...

last year, we decided to go the funny route again, and dressed up with laughs in mind:

we were a Shotgun Wedding, complete with pregnant belly, pigtails, & wedding dress for me and blacked out teeth & top hat for him. it was a huge hit at the party we went to! I made sure to drink plenty of beer and smoke lots of cigarettes, since I heard it was good for babies growth. 

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instead of dressing up as a couple this year, we took a different approach. Sean already had a costume in mind, and he wasn't backing down. he's being Jesus, which is pretty fitting, if you know us. 

I thought about being Mary, but the costume was pretty boring, and I didn't want to invest in a baby doll that I'd have to carry around all night. so instead, I decided on a different historical costume. I wanted something that wasn't super slutty (that's totally not my thang), and still comfortable with fun accessories. so I decided to dress up as Cleopatra:

I'm pretty excited about Halloween this year, since we'll be spending it with a lot of our close friends. we booked a hotel room down the street from the party, and will be getting a taxi back to the hotel at the end of the night/beginning of the morning. it should be an awesome time, and I'll be sure to take lots of pictures to blog about next week!

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are you dressing up for Halloween this year? what/who are you being? do you support adult celebration of Halloween, or do you think it's just for kids?

wee bit Wednesdays!

this week is Halloween themed, which reminds me... I still need to share my costume with you guys!

play along here!

{one} have you ever seen a ghost?not that I know of. I don't really believe in that stuff anyway. 
{two} when was the last time you dressed up for halloween?last year! Sean & I were a shotgun wedding. it was definitely one of my favorite costumes... that pregnant belly looked ridiculously real. see?

{three} what’s your favorite candy?Gobstoppers. I'm eating some right now.
{four} did you have a favorite costume growing up?I was almost always some version of a cat. surprise surprise!
{five} did you carve pumpkins this year?nah. I'm not really into that, and I probably won't ever do it unless we have rugrats to entertain.
{six} what’s your favorite scary movie?Halloween is my favorite (and my least favorite). it's old school, and it still scares the shit out of me to this day. also I can't watch scary movies without watching something silly afterward, because I WILL have nightmares.
{seven} haunted houses or corn mazes?haunted houses.
{eight} are you superstitious?not at all.
{nine} have you ever owned a black cat?plenty. Pheobe is black & white. :)
{ten} what are you plans for this coming halloween?we're going to a Halloween party at our friend Joey's house with a few of our friends. we even booked a hotel room this year so we don't have to worry about staying sober.

I've been featured!

I'm being featured for the Real People In Love Series today over at Love & Happiness! so exciting! I was thrilled when Nicole allowed me to be a part of her series, and it's even more awesome to see it live on her blog! it's not very often that I swoon over my husband, and it gives me butterflies to read it!

head over HERE to check it out! it's totally smushy and lovey, which totally isn't me normally, but what can I say? I loves my husband. 

if you'd like to be a part of RPIL, just shoot Nicole an email!

Happy Wednesday!